How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius

What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World’s Game

A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

After reading this fun book, youll never look at soccer the same way again.

In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglican priest to explain schismshow American football, soccer, and rugby could all develop from the field games of rowdy 19th-century British schoolboys.

Greene delves deep into what defines the game, how it developed, and what happens during a matchs 90 minutes (and then some). His expert commentators include a domino toppler, a developmental neuroscientist, an